Tim Johnson: General Oscar Naranjo Trujillo Takes His Leave of Mexico Tim Johnson - McClatchyDC
go to original January 29, 2014

Gen. Oscar Naranjo Trujillo, a hero of Colombia’s battles against leftist guerrillas, rightwing militias and drug traffickers, has been living off and on in Mexico since the summer of 2012.

It was then that Enrique Pena Nieto, eager to diminish concerns that his incoming government would strike deals with gangsters as a way to lower levels of violence, hired Naranjo as his special advisor. Naranjo’s impeccable image, especially on Capitol Hill in Washington, helped ease concerns that Pena Nieto would seek an accommodation with criminals.

Naranjo, who’d been the national police chief in Colombia, took up residence and an office in Santa Fe, the pricey district in Mexico City’s western reaches.

Naranjo is now returning to his native Colombia. President Juan Manuel Santos tweeted from Davos, Switzerland, last Friday that Naranjo would be helping him with his re-election effort in Colombia. The Pena Nieto government issued a brief statement Sunday offering thanks for “the work of Gen. Naranjo Trujillo, and the contribution he made in designing security strategies for our nation.”

But the departure begs the question: What did Naranjo do while here? What are those security strategies for which Mexicans should be grateful?

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